PAC-12PLAYERS HONORS For Immediate Release \\ Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019 Contacts \\ Dave Hirsch ([email protected]), Ryan Andersen ([email protected]) OF THE WEEK OFFENSE & FRESHMAN 2019 PAC-12 FOOTBALL STANDINGS Jayden Daniels, QB, ASU Daniels threw for 408 yards and 3 PAC-12 OVERALL TDs in ASU’s 31-28 upset of sixth- NORTH W-L Pct. PF PA W-L Pct. PF PA Home Road Neut Div Streak ranked Oregon. In the first half, Oregon* 7-1 .875 273 143 9-2 .818 406 179 6-0 3-1 0-1 4-0 L 1 Daniels completed 12-of-14 passes Oregon State 4-4 .500 255 276 5-6 .455 364 366 2-4 3-2 0-0 1-3 L 1 for 191 yards and a TD with his two California 3-5 .375 135 197 6-5 .545 213 247 3-3 3-2 0-0 3-2 W 1 incompletions coming on the final Washington 3-5 .375 203 179 6-5 .545 347 232 3-3 3-2 0-0 1-3 L 1 drive of the half. In the second half, Washington State 3-5 .375 309 298 6-5 .545 457 346 5-1 0-4 1-0 2-2 W 2 Daniels threw for 217 yards with TD Stanford 3-6 .333 192 261 4-7 .364 236 313 3-3 1-4 0-0 2-3 L 3 passes of 26 and 81 yards, the lat- ter coming on 3rd & 16 and ASU SOUTH W-L Pct. PF PA W-L Pct. PF PA Home Road Neut Div Streak up 24-21 with 3:54 remaining to Utah 7-1 .875 286 91 10-1 .909 382 120 6-0 4-1 0-0 2-1 W 7 give ASU a 10-point advantage USC 7-2 .778 313 250 8-4 .667 398 333 5-1 3-3 0-0 5-0 W 3 OFFENSIVE LINEMAN UCLA 4-4 .500 260 294 4-7 .364 302 389 2-3 2-4 0-0 2-3 L 2 Abe Lucas, OT, WSU Arizona State 3-5 .375 219 242 6-5 .545 278 263 4-2 2-3 0-0 0-4 W 1 Anchored a line that helped WSU Colorado 3-5 .375 158 245 5-6 .455 267 337 3-3 1-3 1-0 1-3 W 2 accumulate 641 yards of total of- Arizona 2-6 .250 178 305 4-7 .364 309 405 3-3 1-4 0-0 2-2 L 6 fense in a 54-53 win over Oregon * - Clinched Division State. Lucas played every snap of the game, including 70 pass at- THIS WEEK’S PAC-12 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE (#Pac12FB) tempts, and did not surrender a sack. WSU also rushed for two TDs, Fri., Nov. 29 Site Local Time/TV including the game-winner with :02 WASHINGTON STATE at WASHINGTON Husky Stadium (70,183) 1:00 p.m. PT/FOX seconds remaining. He graded out Series: WASH leads, 73-32-6. Last: WASH, 28-15 (2018) (Tim Brando, Spencer Tillman, Coley Harvey) at 90 percent for the game and led all tackles nationally in pass block- Sat., Nov. 30 Site Local Time/TV ing grade last week by PFF. #16 Notre Dame at STANFORD Stanford Stadium (50,424) 1:00 p.m. PT/FOX Series: ND leads, 20-13-0. Last: ND, 38-17 (2018) (Tim Brando, Spencer Tillman, Coley Harvey) DEFENSE Talanoa Hufanga, S, USC OREGON STATE at #14 OREGON Autzen Stadium (54,000) 1:00 p.m. PT/P12N Had a career-best 18 tackles in the Series: ORE leads, 65-47-10. Last: ORE, 55-15 (2018) (Ted Robinson, Yogi Roth, Lewis Johnson) 52-35 win over UCLA, the most COLORADO at #6 UTAH Rice-Eccles Stadium (45,807) 5:30 p.m. MT/ABC in a game by a Trojan since Troy Series: COLO leads, 32-30-3. Last: UTAH, 30-7 (2018) (Steve Levy, Brian Griese, Todd McShay/Molly McGrath) Polamalu had 20 vs. Utah in the ARIZONA at ARIZONA STATE Sun Devil Stadium (56,232) 8:00 p.m. MT/ESPN 2001 Vegas Bowl. Hufanga had a Series: ARIZ leads, 49-42-1. Last: ASU, 41-40 (2018) (Mark Jones, Dusty Dvoracek, Olivia Dekker) game-best 2.0 tackles for loss, with CALIFORNIA at UCLA Rose Bowl (80,616) 7:30 p.m. PT/FS1 a sack, and also broke up a pass. Series: UCLA leads, 55-33-1. Last: UCLA, 37-7 (2018) (Cory Provus, Shane Vereen/Petros Papadakis) DEFENSIVE LINEMAN Bradlee Anae, DE, UTAH Open Date Next Game Finished second on the team with #22 USC Pac-12 FCG or Postseason Bowl seven tackles, including Utah’s only #CFP Rankings. * - Not including two wins vacated due to NCAA penalty. sack of the game in a 35-7 win at Arizona. Held Arizona to 61 yards rushing, the 10th of 11 games this QUICK HITS season Utah has held its opponent under 100 yards rushing. • THE CFP RANKINGS: UTAH moves up to No. 6, OREGON drops to No. 14, and USC moves up to No. 22 in this SPECIAL TEAMS week’s CFP rankings ... UTAH leads the Pac-12 and ranks sixth nationally in weeks ranked in the College Football Alex Kinney, P, COLO Playoff Poll, with 28 weeks, trailing only Alabama (35), Clemson (35), Ohio State (35), Oklahoma (33) and LSU (31) . In CU’s 20-14 win over Washing- • DIVISION RACES: OREGON has clinched the North Division crown and will be making its third Pac-12 Football Cham- ton, he helped the Buffs pin UW pionship Game appearance. Meanwhile, the South Division race is down to UTAH and USC. With a win over Colorado, deep in their territory at key times. Utah returns the Pac-12 Football Championship Game. If it stumbles and finishes in a tie with USC at 7-2, the Trojans He had four punts for a 45.8 aver- own the tiebreaker and would head to Santa Clara for a rematch against Oregon. See page 8 of this release for Pac-12 age, with three inside-the-15 (two tie-break procedures. inside-the-10, including one that curled out of bounds at the 1-yard • FOUR OR MORE WINS: Entering this weekend’s play, the Pac-12 Conference is the only FBS conference with all its line. teams having four or more victories this season. Only once has the Conference had a season where all teams had won four or more games (1965). 2019 PAC-12 vs. ... PAC-12 FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK American .......................................... 1-2 THE POLLS: Three Pac-12 teams are ranked in the AP and in the Coaches polls - UTAH (6/6), OREGON (14/13) and USC (25/25) ... Eight different Pac-12 teams have been ranked in the Top 25 at some point Atlantic Coast .................................... 0-0 this season. Big Sky ............................................. 6-0 Big Ten ............................................. 3-0 UTAH DEFENSE HOLDS STRONG: Utah is one of three FBS teams to rank in the top 10 in both offensive Big 12 ............................................... 1-1 and defensive plays per yard: - Utah is 9th in offensive ypp (6.95) and 4th in defensive ypp (4.24) Colonial ............................................. 0-0 - Clemson is 4th in offensive ypp (7.49) and 2nd in defensive ypp (3.88) CUSA ................................................ 1-0 - Ohio State is 8th in offensive ypp (7.04) and 1st defensive ypp (3.52) Mid-American ................................... 2-0 Utah’s defense continues to rank among the best in the FBS: Mountain West .................................. 4-4 1st in rushing defense (55.9 ypg); opponents average just 2.3 yards per carry Southeastern ..................................... 1-1 2nd in first downs allowed (151) Sun Belt ............................................ 0-0 3rd in total defense (243.8) FBS Independent .............................. 3-2 4th in scoring defense (10.9), yards per play (4.24) & pass efficiency defense (105.10) FCS Independent .............................. 0-0 7th in red zone defense (68.4%) Total-All .............................. 24-11 (.686) 12th in interceptions (13) Total-FBS ............................ 16-11 (.593) A ROLLING UTE GATHERS NO MOSS: UTAH senior RB Zack Moss has rushed for 100 or more yards in seven games this season, including five of the last six with a season-high 203 at Arizona. He leads the Pac- The Pac-12 has posted a winning record against 12 in rushing (115.8 avg). Moss already owns the school career records for rushing (3,809 yards) and rush- non-conference foes for 34 consecutive sea- ing touchdowns (37). However, it’s his pass catching ability that’s been gaining attention of late. Over the last sons. five games, he’s pulled in 19 receptions for 313 yards and one score. In his first 37 games as a Ute, he had 40 receptions for 304 yards ... Over the last five games, Moss is averaging 191.4 all-purpose yards per game. NEXT WEEK’S SCHEDULE 2.3 MILES: Pac-12 quarterbacks combined to throw for 3,976 yards last Saturday, the equivlant of 2.3 miles. WASHINGTON STATE’s Anthony Gordon became the third quarterback in Pac-12 history to throw for Fri., Dec. 6 600 yards as he went for 606 in the win against Oregon State. USC’s Kedon Slovis set a school single-game Pac-12 Football Championship Game, 5 pm PT record with 515 yards in the win over UCLA. ABC YOU COMPLETE ME: Through 13 weeks, four Pac-12 QBs are among the 12 FBS quarterbacks who have Sun., Dec. 8 completed at least 68.0% of their pass attempts this season (minimum 15 passes per game/played in 75.0% CFP Announcement, 9 am PT, ESPN of team’s games).